Circumstances may have changed since they have said these, but it's still nice to look back at the time when you've been communicating with people in this beautiful way, feeling certain feelings and realising that you have this effect on others. I've compiled these quotes to remind me of rather eloquent and emotional phases in my life.

To cheer me up on these down days...

• Hun, you really really remind me of Ally McBeal. Even when we were in high school. The hair, the pout, the search for love. :) (Sept-05)
• I've never gotten the chance to talk to you in person, but i think you're a really energetic person. with fabulous a musical preference, of course :) (Sept-05)
• I’d hate to see you settle for the safe choice–- God, everyone in the world is settling, only very few seem to be getting what they really want–- this is so cliche but you might end up always wondering what could’ve been. This is the kind of stuff that you read about in romance novels, that you see in romance movies, the kind of stuff that we keep trying to tell ourselves that’s not real. I just want to see you happy, you know. (Feb-2005)
• buhay ako! / malabo lang tayong dalawa / kung kailan pa nawalan ng ilaw / Tsaka pa lang naging malinaw (Mar-2005)
• See you next year. Sorry I can't be there. I wish I could walk it with you.
• You know, last week, I was in the midst of chasing after a girl, the one i was talking about. But now, i just feel like resting in this place, and just moving closer to you, as a friend I mean. (Sept-2002)
• I wish, you could see yourself from my eyes and my thoughts. But that would be unfair too, I'd rather that you realize for yourself just how... unexplainably beautiful you really are, I'd rather you first find hope within yourself and not from someone else. (Dec-2002)
• She is the heroine in the romantic comedy that is life. She strolls along, waltzing her way into everyone's hearts without anyone noticing until it's too late. (Sept-2003)
• I want to be confident, that at some point in the next few decades, I'll be able to see you again and this time, stick around, to just stay until the end. That's what I look forward to, and I hope that I don't fail. (Dec-2002)
• And that scar that you believe is making you ugly.... the truth is it only gave you an inferiority complex because the other girls don't have blemishes. (Nov-2005)
• The hug was a big thing wasn't it? I'm glad it happened. I guess sometimes, the harder it is to hug a person, the more meaningful it becomes.
• Whatever happens in the next few months or some time next year, when you find someone else again, there is always a jealous forlorn part of me, wishing that person would be me. (Jan-2003)
• The downside with her is.. she's psycho! She thinks she's worthless and horrible-looking even though its the complete exact opposite! (Nov-2003)
• I wasn't able to concentrate on the movie, not just tbecause I've already seen it, I was also trying to enjoy your presence. (Jan-2003)
• You have inspired me in many sublime ways through your writings and thoughts over the past so-and-so years. I believe you are one of the very few people I would 'like to be like,' not in the twisted sense of the word though. (Aug-2004)
• whatever happens, I want you to know that the place you occupy in my heart will be carried throughout, as long as my soul exists. Lets live life, embrace it, have no fear of what's to come :) (Jan-2003)
• Mga ibang kaibigan napapagod sa akin, ako din napapagod sa kanila. Eh ikaw? Siguro paminsan-minsan? Pero kahit na, hindi ko pa rin makapaniwala, dahil nandiyan ka pa rin sa buhay ko, at importante ka... hindi mo siguro malalaman kung gaano, pero ayun. (Jun-2004)
• You are nineteen now. I still think you’re the sweet idealistic person I’ve met and 'bestfriended' seven years ago. Only now you’ve been more exposed to the world, to pain, to love, all other unavoidable miseries and mishaps in life. I hope I still get to trudge through life with you for a long, long time. Cos I don’t know. It’s fun living life with you around. (Jul-2002)
• I'm glad we met online and I'm glad we met in "real life", because she's made life sweeter for me just by being my friend. (Jun-2004)
• I always loved reading your writings even though they were just little statements about the day.... (Sept-2002)
• We have known each other since forever. It's a really long time to know someone and yet, I will always be surprised by a lot of things about her. A big heart. A good head on her shoulders. An endless fascination about the world. A hearty laugh. A fabulous friend. These are just random things about her, I could go on, but it will take a great deal of time and I would still not do her justice. I have been fortunate enough to have been blessed with one of the best friends one could ever find, and I know that other people have also been blessed in the same way. Words haven't been invented to describe what we have, nor who or what she really means to me. (Jun-2006)
• My arms reach out, hand meets hand, stopping you from stretching any further, putting back the broken bones in place because its my turn to heal you. (Oct-2003)
• This is weird, but I always have this quaint, comfortable feeling whenever I get to hang out with her. Because maybe that's what it's like to hang out with her, a nice long trip, the sunrise. Calm, comfortable. (Sept-2003)
• I have to make a silly confession. I read too much of her writings. Those from stories from Aming Katha to her blog. Why? I had a big crush on her way back in high school. There. Nice brain! I never had the chance to take her for a dance at prom night. Line was long. She barely seated. I just can't. I had the shakes. I dint have the guts. I missed it. (Aug-2004)
• Well, one thing i realized, though, all this time.... it seems that a lot of people like you.... if not for who you are... then for the way you look... and that always made me happy for you. But I dont know, I felt sort of jealous too sometimes, and it's stupid, but i imagined myself to have known a secret in the form of you and I didn't want others to know.
• You won’t get lucky someday, because it’s the other way around. Someday, someone will get very lucky to have you at all. Just like me. :) (Jun-2004)
• I think there’s something very natural about your pics and it speaks volumes about the places you’ve gone to pati na rin the kind of person that you are :) (Mar-2008)
• You can say whatever you want about your pics my dear, fans mo pa rin ako. hahah. I think you have an excellent eye for detail and your perspective of things is extraordinary, not at all plain touristy. I haven't watched Before Sunrise yet but i can imagine it would be swell to have some movie-like experience while living in a breathtakingly scenic foreign land. don't give up just yet, maybe your movie moment's just around the corner :) (Mar-08)
• The photos are awesome, I get fragmented but strong imaginative images of how your life has been over there. Take good care and I hope there's still plenty of time to be swept off your feet by someone or something. (Mar-08)
• You're such a Pam (from The Office) (Aug-2008)
• I'll miss you crush ... :"> (Aug-08)
• I think it would be nice to hang out and get to know you more sometime. I'd like to have that chance. (Aug-08)
• Your documentary work is really phenomenal !!! I'm glad I found you on flickr. You seem to do well outside your comfort zone. Get right in there.... only sometimes - your "from a distance" images are great, too. (Nov-08)
• That's why we're good for each other. (2009)
• "Bite your tongue," adored you then, still adore you now. From '99, we kept falling out of touch, and after all the people I've met online, you're the only one that's still around. I keep on thinking, if we existed purely as electrons, I would have married you, in that strange sense. haha. Online, we are totally open and brutal, but out there... well, remember the Gokongwei corridors. Out there, we lead totally different lives, struggling against the dynamics of relationships and simply living. Out there, we wake up from a dream that sometimes, seems like the life I'd gladly be willing to trade in. We've discussed dreams, and it slips from my mind briefly, but when I think of New York, I think of how our ice skates would look like during a Winter in Central Park. What the view will be like from the top of the Waldorf Astoria. I wonder how many more years before that happens, while remaining a skeptic because these are dangerous thoughts too. (Sept-03)
• It was raining, but I started to make my way, and then I found myself running, and as I was running, I wanted to cry, I was getting really sad, and the loneliness was really hitting me, and the faster I ran, I was thinking about you. (Jan-03)
• i'll take care of you (Jul-09)
• I'd like to have your spirit, funk, passion, courage, depth, humor, your exceptional ideas on just about everything, lahat na! :D For me, you're this someone who has popped out from a wonder novel glorifying human beauty and triumph. Pang-heroine nga yung type mo eh and i can almost imagine how much of a magnum opus your autobiography will be :) I love it when you talk about love and the pain and happiness that go with it. I love it how you transform the mundane, ordinary things into something lovely. You are lovely. tough-lovely, sensitive-lovely, funny-lovely, passionate-lovely, lahatna-lovely :D your fam and friends are blessed to have you :) i always look forward to reading your entries and i really hope one day i'd get to meet you in person! damn, i would be held in awe <3<3 (2004)
• You really write so well... :D I wish I’d be more expressive and creative as you.. I’ve been observing your posts and quite distinctively, yours are far better than others (No offense to others). Yeah... Yours is simply put with great informatively articulate style. (Nov-04)
• i don't know.. i just feel like.. i should say something.. for you..you're taking a big step... so the least i can do is say something appropriate..something that can make you feel secured that what you're doing is ok. (Jul-09)
• I want you to share your life with me. I want to share my life with you. (2009)